The blockade creates heavy traffic congestion on the both sides of the road, the OC said.

The workers claimed that they were yet to get the salaries of last three months.

On information, law enforcers rushed to the spot around 10:30am and dispersed the agitating workers from the road firing water cannon, the police official said.

Law enforcers use water cannons to disperse the demonstrating workers of Toba group. Photo: TV grab

No casualty was reported in the incident, the police official said.

Tazreen Fashions’ owner Delwar Hossain and its Chairperson Mahmuda Akhter are now in jail in the cases filed in connection with the deadly fire at the factory in Ashulia in November 2012, which killed 112 workers.

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